202
202
Oct 6, 2012
10/12
by
KRCB
tv
eye 202
favorite 0
quote 0
broadcast around the continent, "shuga" is a drama that provides aids education and broaches taboo subjects. we talk to an aids activist about its impact. on "art beat, we look at the national storytelling festival. it began 40 years ago in the appalachian town of jonesborough, tennessee, and now is one of the largest annual gatherings of storytellers in the country. and a program note-- "sound tracks: music without borders"-- offers behind-the-scenes stories about the power of music to touch hearts and change the world. the program features four artists, and includes interviews and live performances. it airs tonight on pbs. find a link to "sounds tracks" and much more on our web site, newshour.pbs.org. >> woodruff: and again to our honor roll of american service personnel killed in the afghanistan conflict. we add them as their deaths are made official and photographs become available. here, in silence, are nine more. >> woodruff: and that's the newshour for tonight. on monday, we'll look at the presidential candidates on foreign policy. i'm judy woodruff. >> brown: and i'm jeffrey brown.
broadcast around the continent, "shuga" is a drama that provides aids education and broaches taboo subjects. we talk to an aids activist about its impact. on "art beat, we look at the national storytelling festival. it began 40 years ago in the appalachian town of jonesborough, tennessee, and now is one of the largest annual gatherings of storytellers in the country. and a program note-- "sound tracks: music without borders"-- offers behind-the-scenes stories about the...
140
140
Oct 9, 2012
10/12
by
KRCB
tv
eye 140
favorite 0
quote 0
to the fatwa one of the things that fascinated was the description of your early years in india and educated in england. you present yourself as a secular muslim. but one trying to understand the relion and your rol in it. >> i mean i grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. my father wasn't religious at all. but he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of islam. he basically transmitted that interest to me. so when i studied history at cambridge, i did a special subject in that exactly. while i was studying it was where i came across the so-called incident of the satanic verses. >> brown: you say in the book youoted good story. >> 20 years later i find out how good a story it was. >> brown: you wrote when you finished the satanic verses you thought it was the least political of the novels you had written at the time. you were genuinely surprised at what had happened. >> i thought i was very respectful about islam. yes from a secular point of view but it talks about the birth of this religion and i thought it was pretty admiring of the pe
to the fatwa one of the things that fascinated was the description of your early years in india and educated in england. you present yourself as a secular muslim. but one trying to understand the relion and your rol in it. >> i mean i grew up in a family in which there was very little religion. my father wasn't religious at all. but he was really interested in the subject of, you know, the birth and growth of islam. he basically transmitted that interest to me. so when i studied history...
160
160
Oct 13, 2012
10/12
by
KRCB
tv
eye 160
favorite 0
quote 0
, it would be very good fo us to try to upgrade education, financial will it liy education in schools and for states to concentrate on that. that's going to go a long way toward young people understanding their paychecks, how much the government is taking out for various taxes. that creates better voters to know how to make -- if the government is this big and they're taking this much, how can i help sort out the priorities in terms of what the government should do, and be able to understand as well the recourse where there is, when they do sense they might to be victim of abuse in the workplace. that's appropriate in this case i think wage theft is one of those things we can count is being pretty well covered by the department of labor. >> would you like to see new legislation? >> i would because there are whole sets of workers who are not covered. we cover almost every worker, but there are about four or five categories of workers, all of them are mostly women and all of them are bottom of the economic pile. >> all right. that's it for this edition of to the con carrie. please follo
, it would be very good fo us to try to upgrade education, financial will it liy education in schools and for states to concentrate on that. that's going to go a long way toward young people understanding their paychecks, how much the government is taking out for various taxes. that creates better voters to know how to make -- if the government is this big and they're taking this much, how can i help sort out the priorities in terms of what the government should do, and be able to understand as...
169
169
Oct 14, 2012
10/12
by
KRCB
tv
eye 169
favorite 0
quote 0
conversation one thing that they did not touch on which they should have touched on was immigration and education. but they were guided more by the moderator who did a great job in conducting this. i don't find the debate wanting on substantive issues. >> if you're my age and you are watching this thing and you're worried about medicare and social security, which of these individuals do you believe? >> i think it depends on who you are predisposed to believe. joe biden is a liberal, a new deal. to point outownefirst that, while his own president said is that he's willing to raise the retirement age, joe biden says no. this is a major for medicare and social security. they will not be around. we are the party of the medicare and social security. what about n? what will you do when your own president has said medicare will die unless it is reform? i think he is inclined toward that new deal liberalism. you except what joe biden will say. if you listen to paul ryan, he said we have to amend it. we have to change it. and this is how we will do it. >> i want to get to policy, to appear in a week after
conversation one thing that they did not touch on which they should have touched on was immigration and education. but they were guided more by the moderator who did a great job in conducting this. i don't find the debate wanting on substantive issues. >> if you're my age and you are watching this thing and you're worried about medicare and social security, which of these individuals do you believe? >> i think it depends on who you are predisposed to believe. joe biden is a liberal,...
257
257
Oct 13, 2012
10/12
by
KRCB
tv
eye 257
favorite 0
quote 0
malala yousufzai has been an outspoken critic of taliban atrocities and a promoter of girls' education. the country's prime minister visited the girl's family today at a military hospital near islamabad. he called the shooting an attack on pakistan's core values. >> we pledge that we will not allow the future of our children to be endangered by the militant mind-set. we pledge that the enemies of pakistan will never be allowed to succeed. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, a military official said yousufzai is in satisfactory condition, after having a bullet removed from her neck. she's being kept unconscious and on a ventilator for now. this year's winner of the nobel prize for literature voiced hope today that a fellow chinese laureate will get out of prison. mo yan was honored with the literature award yesterday. at a news conference today, he said he hopes that dissident liu xiaobo regains his freedom very soon. liu won the nobel peace prize in 2010 after being sentenced to 11 years in prison for advocating an end to china's one-party rule. the space shuttle "endeavour" has begun a final,
malala yousufzai has been an outspoken critic of taliban atrocities and a promoter of girls' education. the country's prime minister visited the girl's family today at a military hospital near islamabad. he called the shooting an attack on pakistan's core values. >> we pledge that we will not allow the future of our children to be endangered by the militant mind-set. we pledge that the enemies of pakistan will never be allowed to succeed. >> sreenivasan: meanwhile, a military...
167
167
Oct 12, 2012
10/12
by
KRCB
tv
eye 167
favorite 0
quote 0
it cuts education by 450 billion dollars. it does virtually nothing except continue to increase the tax cuts for the very wealthy. and you know, we have had enough of this. the idea that the so concerned about these deficits, i pointed out, he voted to put two cars on a credit card and he did. >> we're going to the closing statements in a minute. you are gaeing to have your -- >> not raising taxes is not cutting tax, and by the way, our budget we have -- >> 3% a year instead of 4.5%. >> let me calm down things here just for a minute. and i want to talk to you briefly before we go to closing statements about your own personal character. if are you elected, what you could both give to this country as a man, as a human being, that no one else could. >> honesty, no one else could? there are plenty of fine people who could lead this country. but what you need are people who when they say they're going do something, they go do it. what you need are when people see problems they offer solutions to fix those problems. we're not getti
it cuts education by 450 billion dollars. it does virtually nothing except continue to increase the tax cuts for the very wealthy. and you know, we have had enough of this. the idea that the so concerned about these deficits, i pointed out, he voted to put two cars on a credit card and he did. >> we're going to the closing statements in a minute. you are gaeing to have your -- >> not raising taxes is not cutting tax, and by the way, our budget we have -- >> 3% a year instead...
216
216
Oct 6, 2012
10/12
by
KCSM
tv
eye 216
favorite 0
quote 0
the results are distressingly similar to earlier educational studies. in reading and arithmetic, the children of bavaria, saxony take the lead. after the middle ground states, the city-state's, in last in every area. >> it is no secret that elementary schools in the three city-states many children from immigrant families as well as socially different backgrounds. >> the immigration system often struggles to meet the needs of such children who may live in urban areas. experts have criticized the rankings, say school performance in cities like hamburg should not be compared to that in big states. researchers say it is more important that germany's schools learn from each others' successes. they hope the school can serve as an example to other schools in trouble. >> more gloom for the global economy. international monetary fund is predicting lower than expected lower than expected worldwide growth this year at around 3.3%, according to germany's newspaper. >> the euro crisis is putting the brakes on many economies. france is expecting zero growth in the ne
the results are distressingly similar to earlier educational studies. in reading and arithmetic, the children of bavaria, saxony take the lead. after the middle ground states, the city-state's, in last in every area. >> it is no secret that elementary schools in the three city-states many children from immigrant families as well as socially different backgrounds. >> the immigration system often struggles to meet the needs of such children who may live in urban areas. experts have...
302
302
Oct 8, 2012
10/12
by
KDTV
tv
eye 302
favorite 0
quote 0
. >> se activo la campaña educate es el momento para ayudar a los estudiantes a conseguir su título, aprovechan todas los plataformas para promover el logro academico entre los hispanos, entre a www.eselmomento.com y volvemos a venezuela. despertar, una presentación de altares de día de muertos busca mantener viva la democracia. de qué manera? también, qué podría pasar con las pensiones del estado dada la y volvemos con lo último de la información electoral, estamos con jorge ramos en caracas, encontraste una venezuela dividida, después de los resultados, esa vennzuela dividia es reconciliable? >> es difícil en este lunes por la madrugada es difícil pensar en el punto de encuentro, donde enrique capriles gana más de 6 millones de voto, los venenzolanos se presentan casi políticamente yo soy chavista o no, hugo chavez hablo de la batalla perfecta, si no un puente de la oposicion, y enrique capriles hablando del candidato de la derecha, chavez quedo resentido de los traidores en el golpe, pero a menos que hugo chavez haga y llame a enrique capriles seria una gran noticia p
. >> se activo la campaña educate es el momento para ayudar a los estudiantes a conseguir su título, aprovechan todas los plataformas para promover el logro academico entre los hispanos, entre a www.eselmomento.com y volvemos a venezuela. despertar, una presentación de altares de día de muertos busca mantener viva la democracia. de qué manera? también, qué podría pasar con las pensiones del estado dada la y volvemos con lo último de la información electoral, estamos con jorge...
190
190
Oct 7, 2012
10/12
by
CNNW
tv
eye 190
favorite 0
quote 0
let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> after years of being left out in the cold, a man has been given a new home. is everyone feeling the same about christopher columbus' new home? we'll find out. >> reporter: christopher columbus has been in the same place. >> i've been living in the city since 1966, columbus circle has always been there. but you don't look up? you can't see it, it's so high. >> reporter: faster than you can see santa maria, the public art group set sail to bring the people to columbus. >> watch out. >> reporter: columbus had to make an extremely long ocean voyage to discover the americas. to discover christopher columbus' statue here you have to walk up several flights of stairs. we are about to see them up close and personal. columbus may have discovered tourists who enter another new world to rediscover columbus. columbus appears to have time travelled into the future standing on a coffee table in living room am
let's develop more stars in education. let's invest in our teachers... ...so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. >>> after years of being left out in the cold, a man has been given a new home. is everyone feeling the same about christopher columbus' new home? we'll find out. >> reporter: christopher columbus has been in the same place. >> i've been living in the city since 1966, columbus circle has always been there. but you don't look up? you can't see it,...
27
27
tv
eye 27
favorite 0
quote 0
going to buy into a simple advertisement that's up somewhere near a train or on a bus they're far more educated than that we've been shown that a coalition of nearly two hundred organizations. american sikh american so there's a broad coalition that will stand up against. i mean the the corporate media and their status would like to paint this whole situation a very dumbed down and childlike argument you know they hate us for our freedoms all these very childlike arguments but really it's much more complex than that so to just incite this rhetoric and this child like mentality is really offensive at least to me and i'm sure a lot of other people really quickly you have about twenty seconds who's funding. that's that's a good question and it's a string of us normal folds and you just got to follow the money of hate and there's a small group continues to fund these efforts continue support money and such efforts but again they're not representative of the majority of americans and they're not going to keep this effort without eventually you realizing that what they're doing is having no effect i
going to buy into a simple advertisement that's up somewhere near a train or on a bus they're far more educated than that we've been shown that a coalition of nearly two hundred organizations. american sikh american so there's a broad coalition that will stand up against. i mean the the corporate media and their status would like to paint this whole situation a very dumbed down and childlike argument you know they hate us for our freedoms all these very childlike arguments but really it's much...
262
262
Oct 8, 2012
10/12
by
CNNW
tv
eye 262
favorite 0
quote 0
...nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. your thumb. it goes from here to here. this bigger screen goes from here to here. now that's either a) an amazing coincidence .. or b) a dazzling display of common sense. pretty sure it's the common sense thing. >>> a tv anchor went off after she got an e-mail from a guy telling her to lose weight. >> i am a grown woman and luckily for me i have a thick skin literally as that e-mail pointed out and otherwise. and that man's words mean nothing to me -- >> well, her video has people talking. she says she was bullied, and i asked if public figures have a responsibility to look a certain way. first from wendy. >> i think you have a responsibility to be moral, to be ethical and to be honest. i think as far as your appearance is concerned i take exception for a viewer that called it a choice for obesity. nobody chooses to be obese. this is a very complicated cocktail of biology
...nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. your thumb. it goes from here to here. this bigger screen goes from here to here. now that's either a) an amazing coincidence .. or b) a dazzling display of common sense. pretty sure it's the common sense thing. >>> a tv anchor went off after she got an e-mail from a guy telling her to lose weight....
18
18
tv
eye 18
favorite 0
quote 0
you have no free college education for millions of college in rome and has doubled the number of people eligible for public pensions is four times as much as it used to be so i think jobs will continue to expand the welfare state at the least and we don't know what else the government will be capable. of as a certainly known as the mad all the people in venezuela now let's look at his presidential campaign it's been mobbed by an information storm i gained simming the international media especially in the u.s. does it really pose a threat to washington. you know president obama even said just recently been as well with those and pose a security threat and that was after one of his top military officer said the same thing the military's been saying there for years by the way that they also for example when the political the boer say that the judges were supporting the park. in. the military the military commanders and their sleeves are all said that wasn't true and they're the ones that have to settle it. that all that stuff is kind of nonsense to go and nobody who knows anything here rea
you have no free college education for millions of college in rome and has doubled the number of people eligible for public pensions is four times as much as it used to be so i think jobs will continue to expand the welfare state at the least and we don't know what else the government will be capable. of as a certainly known as the mad all the people in venezuela now let's look at his presidential campaign it's been mobbed by an information storm i gained simming the international media...
230
230
Oct 7, 2012
10/12
by
CNNW
tv
eye 230
favorite 0
quote 0
help, but recent research shows... ...nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. have more fiber than other leading brands. they're the better way to enjoy your fiber. >>> more politics. we're going to be talking about this until the election is over. joe biden versus paul ryan, the first and only vice presidential -- the first and only vice presidential debate is just four days away. athena jones previews the ryan/biden match-up and looks at standout moments from previous vice presidential debates now. >> reporter: who could forget that wink. then-governor sarah palin winking during her 2008 debate with fellow vice presidential nominee joe biden. not just once, but some half a dozen times. then there's senator lloyd benson's dig at senator dan quayle in 1988. >> i knew jack kennedy. jack kennedy was a friend of mine. senator, you're no jack kennedy. >> reporter: memorable moments, but hardly game-changers. while presidential debates can affect the ou
help, but recent research shows... ...nothing transforms schools like investing in advanced teacher education. let's build a strong foundation. let's invest in our teachers so they can inspire our students. let's solve this. have more fiber than other leading brands. they're the better way to enjoy your fiber. >>> more politics. we're going to be talking about this until the election is over. joe biden versus paul ryan, the first and only vice presidential -- the first and only vice...
17
17
tv
eye 17
favorite 0
quote 0
we are here because we support our president chavez he does many things to help us housing education programs helping the poor everything here has gotten a lot better because of him everything has changed. their red shirts brand them as the lifeblood of the venezuelan president's leftist movement through out his fourteen years in power for the hundreds of thousands of supporters who gathered in caracas on thursday the message was clear they want six more years of. his supporters say that chavez is a country's first president to genuinely care about the lower class. chavez is the punishment of the rich and the window of hope to cool. them. under the banner of socialism for the twenty first century chavez has pumped hundreds of billions of petro dollars into the economy and government run aid programs along with earning him popular support poverty has fallen from fifty percent in one thousand nine hundred nine to around thirty percent last year yet life in this country is far from ideal and with the plague of unemployment crime and corruption many venezuelans are now saying it's time f
we are here because we support our president chavez he does many things to help us housing education programs helping the poor everything here has gotten a lot better because of him everything has changed. their red shirts brand them as the lifeblood of the venezuelan president's leftist movement through out his fourteen years in power for the hundreds of thousands of supporters who gathered in caracas on thursday the message was clear they want six more years of. his supporters say that chavez...
28
28
tv
eye 28
favorite 0
quote 0
we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of spending on education spending on. america will be weak because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing a welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for the increased spending we're going to. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred thousand more children will be dragged into poverty eradicating all the gains that have been made in the last ten years laura smith. well still to come this hour here on r t f ailed chris aden and tell us motorcade had a to pakistan's most troubled region stop short of its final destination now why in just a couple of minutes. private american company hands to the international space station with its first cargo delivery as the hopes to fill the post shuttle era. at how far such missions can go for those businesses craving to conquer the stars there are plenty more stories after a short b
we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of spending on education spending on. america will be weak because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing a welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for the increased spending we're going to. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred thousand...
27
27
tv
eye 27
favorite 0
quote 0
know we if we poverty rising we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on education spending on the n.h.s. . will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing the welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for the increased spending on n.h.s. in years to come. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred thousand more children will be dragged into poverty eradicating all the gains that have been made in the last ten years laura smith r.t. . and we'll get to the r.t. was update in just a sec for now though it was a tough political battle but again proved his socialist agenda in venezuela enjoys strong popular support he's just been reelected for president for a fourth time the polls massive turnout of over eighty percent showed just how crucial the vote was for the nation our correspondent in caracas is lucic of. we're standing here on the streets of caraca
know we if we poverty rising we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on education spending on the n.h.s. . will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing the welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for the increased spending on n.h.s. in years to come. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current...
114
114
Oct 8, 2012
10/12
by
MSNBC
tv
eye 114
favorite 0
quote 0
he's on his way to an education roundtable and a fund-raiser and another big rally tonight planned. another thing unusual about his speech in toledo was the fact it was much longer than usual. he went 33 minutes or so. usually we get a15, 20 minutes out of him and he doesn't spend a lot of time talking about foreign policy. because the crowd saw governor romney's speech at the virginia military institute, paul ryan wanted to talk a little bit about that and perhaps giving him a little more of a chance to get some of the foreign policy stuff out there publicly. obviously, his debate on thursday with vice president joe biden will be a mix of foreign policy and domestic issues. over the weekend we asked him about his preparations for this debate on thursday and what kind of energy he expects the vice president to bring. this is what he had to say. >> well, i guess we don't have the sound, which makes for a funny joke, here's what he had to say, quiet. he said something, ron. can you tell us what he said? >> reporter: basically he expects vice president biden come out like a cannonball
he's on his way to an education roundtable and a fund-raiser and another big rally tonight planned. another thing unusual about his speech in toledo was the fact it was much longer than usual. he went 33 minutes or so. usually we get a15, 20 minutes out of him and he doesn't spend a lot of time talking about foreign policy. because the crowd saw governor romney's speech at the virginia military institute, paul ryan wanted to talk a little bit about that and perhaps giving him a little more of a...
16
16
tv
eye 16
favorite 0
quote 0
some of the more seconds of the population here this has meant policies that have improved health care education given the poor access to housing things that have really earned who has a massive massive popular support at the same time venezuela is plagued with a high crime rate one of the highest in the world as well as corruption and these are just some of the issues that have been seized on by the opposition candidate and the previous he's a forty year old very wealthy businessman who has energized the population has also criticised the country's economic policies now and he's also promised to improve relations with the west now critics say and fear although this is something that could be this in the eyes that he would really represent a radical shift for the country in the sense that he could impose austerity programs and possibly roll back some of those popular economic social justice missions that hugo chavez has put into place this is something that has really concerned people and has raised a lot of questions about the future of this country for the issue of electoral fraud is always a
some of the more seconds of the population here this has meant policies that have improved health care education given the poor access to housing things that have really earned who has a massive massive popular support at the same time venezuela is plagued with a high crime rate one of the highest in the world as well as corruption and these are just some of the issues that have been seized on by the opposition candidate and the previous he's a forty year old very wealthy businessman who has...
43
43
tv
eye 43
favorite 0
quote 0
we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on education spending on. america will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing a welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for our increased spending we're going to. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred thousand more children will be dragged into poverty eradicating all the gains that have been made in the last ten years laura smith r.t. . well it is russia which could warm households in the u.k. and europe with gas flowing directly along the bottom of all our business has to be . absolutely crushed. wants a second pipeline in the north sea. that brings gas to europe of course wanted me to. bring up. here as the reelected venezuelan president hugo chavez secures a comfortable victory in a crucial vote for the nation. stories are much much more for you in just a few minutes after this s
we all of us will have to pay the price in terms of actual spending on education spending on. america will be weaker because you know we'll be losing talent what's the point of slashing a welfare budget if we're going to be paying the price for our increased spending we're going to. save the children hopes to help the worst hit families but this could be a long campaign the institute for fiscal studies says in the next ten years based on current government tax and benefit policies eight hundred...